Populists, plungers, and progressives : a social history of stock and commodity speculation, 1868-1932 / / Cedric B. Cowing

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460375303321
• Autore: Cowing Cedric B.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1965; ©1965
• ISBN: 0-691-04555-0; 1-4008-7498-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Collana: Princeton Legacy Library ; ; 2366
• Disciplina: 332.64273
• Soggetti: Stock exchanges - United States; Investments - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 275-283.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Agrarians and Commodity Speculators -- 2. Financial Reformers and Progressives -- 3. World War I and the Growth of Speculation -- 4. The Twenties: "Sons of the Wild Jackass" -- 5. The Twenties: Bulls, Bears, and Commentators -- 6. After the 1929 Crash: Investigation, Compromise, Reform -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, and economic adjustment of the American people to the speculative machinery that developed between 1868 and the New Deal. The book begins with the struggle of Populist legislators, representing stable farmers, to win a Congressional ban of future commodity trading. Congress failed to act, but anti-speculation, a characteristic of Populism, remained important. In the Progressive era, the stock market rivaled the commodity exchanges for attention. Criticism of market practices was rampant as stories of Plungers spread, but no halt came until the crash. Then New Deal philosophy favored the Progressive faction of the anti-speculators. Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-; on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Jewish feminine mystique? [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish women in postwar America / / edited by Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464148003321
• Autore: Kranson Rachel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-86425-8; 0-8135-5030-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DinerHasia R; KohnShira M; KransonRachel
• Disciplina: 305.48/8924073
• Soggetti: Jewish women - United States - History - 20th century; Jewish women - United States - Social conditions - 20th century; Jewish women - United States - Intellectual life - 20th century; Feminism - United States - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Some of us were there before Betty : Jewish women and political activism in postwar Miami / Raymond A. Mohl -- The polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's postwar Jewish Cold War / Nancy Sinkoff -- Our defense against despair : the progressive politics of the national council of Jewish women after World War II / Kathleen A. Laughlin -- It's good Americanism to join Hadassah : selling Hadassah in the postwar era / ; Rebecca Boim Wolf -- A lady sometimes blows the shofar : women's religious equality in the postwar reconstructionist movement / Deborah Waxman -- Beyond the myths of mobility and altruism : Jewish immigrant professionals and Jewish social welfare agencies in New York City, 1948-1954 / Rebecca Kobrin -- Negotiating new terrain : Egyptian women at home in America / Audrey Nasar -- The bad girls of Jewish comedy : gender, class, assimilation, and whiteness in postwar America / Giovanna P. Del Negro -- Judy Holliday's urban working girl characters in 1950s Hollywood film / Judith Smith -- The "gentle Jewish mother" who owned a luxury resort : the public image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Rachel Kranson -- Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the age of the feminine mystique and after / Barbara Sicherman -- We were ready to turn the world upside down : radical feminism and Jewish women / Joyce Antler -- Jewish women remaking American feminism : women remaking American Judaism : reflections on the life of Betty Friedan / Daniel Horowitz.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged that many American women refused to retreat from public life during these years. Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish women sought opportunities and created images that defied the stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique." As workers with or without pay, social justice activists, community builders, entertainers, and businesswomen, most Jewish women championed responsibilities outside their homes. Jewishness played a role in shaping their choices, shattering Friedan's assumptions about how middle-class women lived in the postwar years. Focusing on ordinary Jewish women as well as prominent figures such as Judy Holliday, Jennie Grossinger, and Herman Wouk's fictional Marjorie Morningstar, leading scholars explore the wide canvas upon which American Jewish women made their mark after the Second World War.